The purpose of this article is to analyze various problems produced by managed care and
the ethical dilemmas contained therein. The most important change is the radical departure …

From the time the oath of Hippocrates is pledged until the time that the last patient is seen,
ethics plays a fundamental role in the practice of medicine. As physicians, we have always …

Ethical concerns relating to managed care discussed in this essay include incentives to
underutilize services, delays in care, postponement of consultation or hospitalization …

ETHICS ARE IN. Business schools, com-panies, entrepreneurial courseseven the US
Congress are increasingly involved. Real or imputed peccadilloes receive prime-time …

Nórman G. Levinsky, MD fundamental principle of medical ethics is that, in clinical practice,
physicians must serve as fiduciaries who place the interests of patients ahead of other …

The ethic of Hippocrates is, in an important sense, quite ambiguous. Scholars of the history
of medicine or the history of ideas may have certain interpretations-interpretations which …

Medicine that*'... one Pennsylvania doctor remarked... that'the physician is being exploited
for the benefit of the middleman; his services are purchased at wholesale and sold at …

Managed care employs two business tools of managed practice that raise important ethical
issues: paying physicians in ways that impose conflicts of interest on them; and regulating …

The shift to managed care has placed administrators and physicians in the position of
balancing the good of the organization with the good of the individual. This" dual moral …

Can physicians make the right clinical decisions when they have a financial interest in cost
containment? Will the tendency to overtreat in fee-for-service systems be replaced by a …